In a message dated 4/8/99 4:23:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Pat Connors <nymets@pcweb.net> writes: > I have a large family of O'Connor/Connors who came over from Doon parish > between 1837 and 1870. They all settled in Troy NY (across the Hudson > River from Albany). Doon parish is located in both county Limerick and > county Tipperary but records are in Limerick which led to some confusion > for me, since my records have them from Tipperary. The Griffiths > Valuation have them from Cullenagh which I haven't found on any maps or > when searching on line for townlands. I would guess it is probably in > Tipperary. Pat, I suspected it was not in Tipperary, because the name was familiar to me. I checked my Cappamore History book and there it was. Besides the confusion of Doon being in both counties, here's another goody for you. Some years back (I think it was in the 70s, but will look it up) part of Doon was cut off and put into the parish of Cappamore. Cullenagh was in that part. (Barony of Owenybeg) In the 1826 Tithe applotment there was a Connor Connors in Cullenagh with 13 acres from landlord Donatus O'Brien. In the 1850 GV of Cullenagh there is a Stephen O'Connor leasing 20 acres from Stafford O'Brien and Timothy Connors leasing 14 perches from Stephen O'Connor. My Ryan cousin from MN (who has relatives in Troy area as do I) will be going to Doon in about 3 weeks to work on his Ryan/O'Connor/Rowles ancestry. We still have O'Connor relatives there. I will forward him your note. >I have records that show that my grandfather's father was > James O'Connor b ca 1849. I believe his father was Timothy O'Connor > married to Catherine (good possibility of being a Ryan). Timothy was > born 1810 and came to Troy in 1864 with James. Timothy's death > certificate shows his parents as Bryan O'Connor and Ann Gallagher. > > Some of Timothy's brothers/cousins who also settled in Troy are: > Redmund, William, Patrick, William, Edward and Winifred > (sister/cousin). They were all from Doon and migrated from 1837 to > 1870. > > I have currently orderd both the marriage cert for Timothy and Catherine > and the baptismal for James from the Doon parish to validify my > research. Looking for connections. See if you can get a map of townlands of Doon and Cappamore from the THU, so you can see the relationships to each other. If not, the FHC has some sketchmaps (rather simple and rough) of the outlines of the townlands of both parishes on microfiche # 6343065 (5 fiche). Anne